DRUGAJANJE 2023
Monday 13th – Friday 17th November 2023
and
Tuesday 23rd – Wednesday 24th January 2024
Although the name Drugajanje is based on a linguistic reference to The Second Gymnasium Maribor, where the festival began 21 years ago in collaboration with the Bunker Institute (Slov. druga_i = “second”, “other”), today, as the festival expands to other cities, the name opens up new semantic references – for example, the notion of the Other, which constitutively shapes the Self by holding up a mirror to it. Since contemporary productions often elude classical formats and genre norms, it is often theatre, or rather the performing arts, that find themselves in this position of mirroring the society of the Selves. This is why the Drugajanje festival, aiming to bring contemporary performing arts closer to young people, also features diverse and atypical performance formats. For example, the theatrical essay, as we could describe Gregor Moder’s Antigone and Neja Tomšič’s The Circle, Lea Kukovičič’s artist talk, Ant Hampton and Tim Etchells’ audio performance, and devised and documentary theatre by Filip Mramor, Silke Huysmans and Hannes Dereere.
This year’s Drugajanje festival, which will be organised in two parts (November 2023 and January 2024) and in five cities (Celje, Ljutomer, Nova Gorica, Ptuj and Maribor), remains faithful to the close cooperation with secondary schools and local organisations in the cities. In addition, this year’s festival places a strong emphasis on workshops, where students will learn about theatre theory and practice, criticism, stage design, directing, contemporary dance, storytelling, and film and visual arts. And although the festival is primarily aimed at secondary school students, performances are also open to outside audiences – so welcome all!
tickets
Tickets for the festival performances are free of charge (except for all evening performances in Celje).
The workshops are open for students only.
Reservations and information at : +386 51 269 906, info@bunker.si
credits
Programme and executive production: Ajda Koloini
Programme advisors: Alma R. Selimović, Mojca Jug
Producers: Anja Vrhovšek, Špela Kopitar
Public relations: Klara Drnovšek Solina, Tamara Bračič Vidmar
Design: Anja Vrhovšek
Technical director: Igor Remeta
Technical coordinators: Andrej Petrovčič, Sani Smajić
Technicians: Duško Pušica, Vid Starman
Partner schools:
II. gimnazija Maribor
Trg Miloša Zidanška 1, 2000 Maribor
www.druga.si
Gimnazija Nova Gorica
Delpinova ulica 9, 5000 Nova Gorica
www.gimng.si
Gimnazija Ptuj
Volkmerjeva cesta 15, 2250 Ptuj
www.gimptuj.si
Gimnazija Franca Miklošiča Ljutomer
Prešernova ulica 34, 9240 Ljutomer
www.gfml.si
Hiša kulture Celje
Savinjsko nabrežje 3, 3000 Celje
www.hisakulture.si
Drugajanje was made possible by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
Thanks to: Nuša Komplet
FESTIVAL PROGRAM 2023
Monday,
13.11.2023
celje
Glavni trg 8 / at 11.30 a.m.
Karolína Kotrbová, Gašper Lovrec, Filip Mramor, Jernej Potočan, Domen Novak
410 KILOMETRES
theater performance
Glavni trg 8 / at 7.30 p.m.
Karolína Kotrbová, Gašper Lovrec, Filip Mramor, Jernej Potočan, Domen Novak
410 KILOMETRES
theater performance
Tuesday,
14.11.2023
celje
Narodni dom Celje / at 10 p.m.
Neja Tomšič / Nonument Group
CIRCLE
theatre essay
Narodni dom Celje / at 7.30 p.m.
Neja Tomšič / Nonument Group
CIRCLE
theatre essay
WEDNESDAY,
15.11.2023
celje
Glavni trg 8 / at 10.00 a.m.
Nuša Komplet Peperko, Urška Majcen, Nuša Ofentavšek
ROSA
audio collage
Thursday, 16.11.2023
lJutomer
Gimnazija Franca Miklošiča Ljutomer / from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tim Etchells, Ant Hampton
NOT TO SCALE
audio performance
friday,
17.11.2023
nova gorica
Gimnazija Nova Gorica / at 3 p.m.
Gregor Moder
ANTIGONE
theatre essay
ptuj
Gimnazija Ptuj / at 3 p.m.
Lea Kukovičič
FORSALE
artist talk
celje
Glavni trg 8 / at 7.30 p.m.
Nuša Komplet Peperko, Urška Majcen, Nuša Ofentavšek
ROSA
audio collage
tuesday,
23.1.2024
maribor
II. gimnazija Maribor / at 7 p.m.
Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere / Campo
OUT OF THE BLUE
documentary performance
wednesday, 24.1.2024
maribor
II. gimnazija Maribor / at 7 p.m.
Neja Tomšič / Nonument Group
CIRCLE
theatre essay
FESTIVAL PROGRAM 2023 - workshops
friday, november 17th
Gimnazija Franca Miklošiča Ljutomer
Gimnazija Franca Miklošiča Ljutomer / at 10 a.m.
Tjaša Črnigoj
Workshop for students
Gimnazija Franca Miklošiča Ljutomer / at 10 a.m.
Neja Tomšič
Tea for Five: OPIUM CLIPPERS
Workchop and visual essay
friday, november 17th
gimnazija nova gorica
Gimnazija Nova Gorica / at 8 a.m.
Olja Grubić
Workshop for students
Gimnazija Nova Gorica / at 8 a.m.
Zala Dobovšek
Workshop for students
Gimnazija Nova Gorica / at 8 a.m.
Andreja Kopač
Workshop for students
Gimnazija Nova Gorica / at 8 p.m.
Ester Ivakić
Workshop for students
friday, november 17th
gimnazija ptuj
Gimnazija Ptuj / at 10 a.m.
Lea Kukovičič
Workshop for students
Gimnazija Ptuj / at 10 a.m.
Barbara Kukovec
Workshop for students
Gimnazija Ptuj / at 10 a.m.
Tanja Radež
Workshop for students
Gimnazija Ptuj / at 10 a.m.
Dora Kaštrun
Workshop for students
More about drugajanje
Since 2001 Bunker is organizing Drugajanje festival in Maribor. It started on the initiative of the headmaster of a high school II. gimnazija Maribor Ivan Lorenčič and it grew into a permanent and fruitful partnership between Bunker and the school and also built a very successful bridge between Ljubljana, the capitol of Slovenia and Maribor, the second largest city in Slovenia.
Drugajanje is a concentrated short contemporary arts festival organized in collaboration with secondary school in Maribor at their theatre and at other venues in Maribor. The focus is on performing arts, especially contemporary theatre and dance. The festival was founded with the purpose of bringing the young generation and the whole city some fresh and vibrant performance art. At the same time it enables Slovene performances to spread out from Ljubljana, where most of the national contemporary scene is being produced.
Contrary to the belief that special performances for the youth should be produced for the youth, Drugajanje has always had a strong artistic contemporary profile and the program through the years always consisted of state-of-the-art contemporary theater and dance.
In the last years the festival has developed from a Slovene focused to internationally focused festival in terms of geographical distribution and has also had a shift in the format: from merely presenting finished works of art to youth and other inhabitants of Maribor we have started developing more process oriented festivals that strongly takes into consideration the festival’s home: Maribor.